Milestones: Jan. 20, 1961

Died. Lynwood Thomas ("Schoolboy") Rowe, 51, an affable giant (6 ft. 4
in., 210 Ibs.) from Waco, Texas who was a high school star at golf,
tennis, track-and-field and football before be coming an ace
righthander for the Detroit Tigers from 1933 to 1942, relied on
assorted amulets, including a broken jade elephant and a high-hopping
spitball, during a spectacular 1934 season in which he won 24 games, 16
consecutively; of a heart attack; in El Dorado, Ark.